Re: strange colormap behaviour with postscript printing

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Saturday 17 January 2009, Ben Abbott wrote:
> >
> >
> > The reason is that you are using a custom color map (COLOR map)  
> > which you
> > try to print to a monochrome postscript printer. Therefore gnuplot  
> > ignores
> > your specific color map and uses the default gray mapping instead
> > ('set palette gray positive|negative gamma _gamma_').


I think that gnuplot/postscript should honor a custom colormap
even if it is in monochrome mode, for the same reason that it 
honors RGB colors even though it is in monochrome mode.
"set term post mono"  should set a default behaviour, but not
limit what the user can do via explicit commands.

So IMHO this really can be considered a gnuplot bug.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt